Bruce Mansfield shows how shifting interpretations and changing critical regard for Erasmus and his work reflect cultural shifts of the last century. Placing the development of Erasmus studies in the context of religious changes as well as shifts in humanities scholarship throughout the century, ...
SHORT NOTICES Augustijn, Cornells, Erasmus: his life, works, and influence (Erasmus Studies 10), trans. J. C. Grayson, Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1991; cloth; pp. x, 239; frontispiece plus 20 illustrations; R R P CAN$39.95. This work is likely to become the...
Erasmus and his writings Ulback E Bibliotheca sacra (1937) 94(374) 176-196 N/ACitations 1Readers Author supplied keywords Erasmus. Desiderius. d 1536 Register to see more suggestions Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work. ...
A Cross-disciplinary Study of the Work and Collections by Roberto de Visiani (1800-1878) Botanists need access to historical collections of dried plants (herbaria) in order to precisely clarify the identity of taxa described by authors of the past. These studies involve the formal process of ty...
He believed that his work had commended itself to the religious world's best minds and dominant powers. Erasmus chose to write in Latin (and Greek), the languages of scholars. He did not build a large body of supporters in the unlettered; his critiques reached a small but elite audience....
It is a strongly pacifist work in which Erasmus sought to ensure that the prince governed justly and benevolently. The importance of Erasmus's work lies in his emphasis on virtuous conduct as the backbone of the polity, an argument which has influenced political writing up to the present time...
When Erasmus Darwin announces that the general design of The Loves of the Plants is to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science (ii), an echo of the Song of Solomon (itself a touchstone for eroticized botanical imagery) reveals how charged the relationship is: his banner over me was...
(and sometimes as a Frenchman), although he never completely abandoned the "German" identity that he had adopted in his youth.The Netherlands Erasmus came to consider his homeland was first of all politically defined, but there are some instances in his work where he seems to consider his ...
himself thoroughly for the work he desired to do. He was the acknowledged leader of a large band of scholars, who looked to him for guidance and were ready to second his efforts; and with the resources of Froben's press at his disposal, nothing seemed beyond his powers and his hopes."...
He had a right to believe that his work so far had commended itself to the best minds and also to the dominant powers in the religious world. There can be no doubt that Erasmus was in sympathy with the main points in the Lutheran criticism of the Church. For Luther personally he had ...